Electric Picnic 2008 Line Up
So I was laid up with my knee when the announcement was made, and yes everybody knows by now who the line up so far is surely...
But just in case you missed it, or you just stumbled in here not ever having heard of Electric Picnic, here the acts that will play Stradbally in Ireland 29th, 30th & 31st August:
- Sex Pistols
- Sigur Ros
- Grinderman
- Franz Ferdinand
- George Clinton & The P-Funk Allstars
- My Bloody Valentine
- Goldfrapp
- Christy Moore
- Wilco
- The Gossip
- Duffy
- Underworld
- Tinariwen
- CSS
- Tindersticks
- New Young Pony Club
- Josh Ritter
- Lisa Hannigan
- Cathy Davey
- That Petrol Emotion
- The Breeders
- Michael Franti & Spearhead
- Sinead O'Connor
- Henry Rollins
- The Waterboys
- The Roots
- Kila
- Micah P Hinson
- Conor Oberst (Bright Eyes)
- Hayseed Dixie
- Foals
- Noisettes
- Candi Staton
- Juana Molina
- Turin Brakes
- Faust
- Midnight Juggernauts
- Tartit
- Hadouken!
- Silver Apples
- Mark Geary
- Teitur
- Blitzen Trapper
- Absentee
- Balanescu Quartet
- Lou Rhodes
- Adrian Crowley
- One Day International
- The Yard Dogs
- Tobias Froberg
- Boss Volenti
- Dawn Landes
- Constantines
- Yacht
- Lionheart Brothers
- Large Mound
- Emmy the Great
- Kormac & the BSQ Band
- Jape
- Dublin Gospel Choir
And more to be announced.
Plenty in there I haven't a clue who they are, so maybe there'll be a few gems for me to discover - but all in all it's not a massively exciting line up for me.
Sigur Ros and Grinderman are tempting alright... and there's a fair few in there who I would certainly like to see, but I'd have been more excited about them a year or two ago. Franz Ferdinand and CSS for example - I'm sure both would be great to see, but they don't have that edge of excitement any more do they?